About Olivia
Olivia Shuttleworth, LICSW, draws on more than three decades of practice to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD-related struggles. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps to manage symptoms and handle life changes. Her approach is steady and experience-based, aimed at people who need clear guidance and ongoing support.
She began as a social worker in 1985 and moved into therapy work in 1989. That history includes inpatient psychiatric care, outpatient programs, day hospital and rehab work, and hospice settings.
Background and approach
She also spent time in the VA system working with veterans and has experience in emergency childcare and child protective services roles. Olivia uses tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Mindfulness Therapy. Sessions often center on concrete skills - changing unhelpful thoughts, building emotional regulation, setting goals, and practicing awareness exercises.
She aims to make techniques easy to use between appointments. Clients come for a wide range of concerns, including eating disorders, severe mental health diagnoses, trauma, addictions, bipolar disorder, sleep problems, anger, and relationship or family stress. She emphasizes that recovery includes support from others and that formal therapy can be one part of that support.
Her style is practical and compassionate. Olivia helps people identify manageable steps, track progress, and adjust plans when life shifts. She brings steady experience and a focus on what people can do now to feel better.
Online therapy with practical, skills-based approaches
Olivia draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy when working online. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with clear exercises and behavior experiments. It is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and ADHD-related challenges. Mindfulness Therapy teaches attention and grounding practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus and emotional balance, which can help with stress, trauma responses, and sleep difficulties.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will review goals, symptoms, and preferences with each person and suggest which methods to try first. The plan can be adjusted over time so techniques match what is most helpful in daily life.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill practice and real-time feedback. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can work well for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging provide quick touchpoints between sessions or a way to communicate when being on camera is not practical. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- West Virginia
- Languages
- English
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